What is your Clock telling you?

I've been looking for daylights savings for a while now... since mid October? I'm not fond of how politics decided to change it to the weekend after Halloween rather than before, but at least its still here. Did you know that Asia doesn't have day lights saving?

Anyhow, I've been lacking sleep lately due to late nights and early mornings (last 8am class ever please), so looking forward to having an extra of sleep this weekend just felt dandy.

Last night I had set my phone and clock in my room to 'fall back' one hour and had gone to bed by midnight (though technically, it was 11pm). I woke up this morning feeling great from being so well rested! I know I have enough sleep when I wake up before my alarm and am so ready to get out of my bed and get ready! On the plus side, the sun was out and triumphs waking up to darkness any day. I also felt warm and cozy waking up as chilly mornings tend to be frequent when one has to wake up before the sun rises.

I had woke up shortly after 7am as my phone told me and my alarm was set at 8:30am. Since I had beyond sufficient time to get up, I thought I just lay in bed a little longer. I finally got up by 7:30am and decided to do some stretches before getting ready. I like it when I'm not being rushed by anyone or having the need to rush to get to somewhere on time, in this case, church. After taking my time with my rare morning exercise, a light breakfast and hygienic routine, it was 8:30am. I made a mental note that I had a half hour before I needed to leave to church and grab a snack for my Sunday School girls. My parents had left for China early this morning at 6am so I was lucky to have the van to myself for the next three weeks.

After getting ready and failed attempts at waking up one of my brothers, I decided to head out on my own. I made a mental note to change the clocks on the microwave and oven as they both read 10am. I decided on Save Ons to buy fruits, but ended up getting Quaker's rice crackers as pre cut fruit is SO EXPENSIVE! However, walking in I was greeted by a middle age man employee at the door and walking out without a plastic bag I thought I approach him to show my receipt as he was watching me leave. He said it was okay and attempted at his Chinese 'sheh sheh' (thankyou) which made me feel like.. ahh why do people do that? Just because I'm noticebly Chinese doesn't mean I don't speak English and I was obviously communicating in proficient English. Anyhow that's besides the point to this blog, but maybe I'll rant about that another day.

So I am finally on my way to church and it was 9:26am already and I assumed I would probably arrive late for sure. Luckily, 7 minutes later I had arrived, parked farther than usual due to my tardiness, and headed to my Sunday School (SS). I entered church and there was more people than usual in the lobby as they are usually in their SS class, so I was wondering if their SS class had been canceled or just didn't start yet. Was briefly stopped by one of my friends and headed upstairs to my usual SS room. A bunch of boys was coming out of my SS and I had forgotten that my class had switched rooms with them and are in the office now. However, the boys were leaving their classroom so I was asked if their SS class was canceled, and to my shock, they said it's over. I was like what? So fast? Isn't it 9:30? One of them showed me his phone and I was jaw dropped seeing 10:46am on his phone.

What in the world had happened? Didn't I change my phone's time? How could SS be done now? I felt terrible, my class!!! *bolted down the stairs...

I left to the office to find my girls and my co-teachers (thank God I was relieved of teaching this week) and interrupted in disbelief about my situation and apologize for my stupidity. It took me a few minutes to sort out how this all happened and turns out, my phone had automatically 'fell back' on its own, thus the clock got turned back twice-once manually, once automatically.

Wow. I feel so embarrassed, and this is the first time ever in my lifetime I managed to be confused about the time change. What a funny story to pass on.

Go ahead and laugh at me.